I love grapefruit Fanta! I have a strong aversion to orange in all its manifestations, but Fanta gives me some love with the grapefruit and, once, some kind of tropical something, neither of which I can find anymore. :(

I thought Fresca was terrible when I was a kid, of course back in the 70's it was probably sweetened with something different than it is now. I like Fresca now, but now that I think about it, I haven't seen it in awhile. It might be gone again.

On the Fresca debate, in the States it's typically only offered in it's diet form, but if you can find bottles of Mexican Fresca from international markets and such it's usually the sugar sweetened variety. Oh, and there's also two varieties of Caribbean Grapefruit soda called Ting (regular and pink grapefruit.) I spend way too much time researching soda for my own good...

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